Split a character string in R on a single backslash

Asked Jan 24 '20 at 19:14

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I am trying to split a character string in R on a single backslash (\).

None of the following work:

strsplit("Joshua\Rosenberg", "\\")
strsplit("Joshua\Rosenberg", "\\\\")

strsplit("Joshua\Rosenberg", "[\]")
strsplit("Joshua\Rosenberg", "[\\]")

strsplit("Joshua\Rosenberg", "\\")
strsplit("Joshua\Rosenberg", "\\\\")

All relevant answers seem to pertain to two backslashes, \\, e.g.:

How can you split a character string on a single backslash?

edited Jan 24 '20 at 19:40

asked Jan 24 '20 at 19:14

Joshua Rosenberg

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HINT: `"Joshua\Rosenberg"` doesn't contain a backslash – Hong Ooi Jan 24 '20 at 19:17
@HongOoi what, uh, does it contain then? :) – Joshua Rosenberg Jan 24 '20 at 19:18
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HINT 2: `"\\str"` doesn't contain 2 backslashes – Hong Ooi Jan 24 '20 at 19:40
I can grok the notion that `\` represents an escape character. I'm not sure what to do about this. – Joshua Rosenberg Jan 24 '20 at 19:43

Split a character string in R on a single backslash

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